Is it time for D 3.0?

Denis Feklushkin feklushkin.denis at gmail.com
Sat Mar 28 18:03:56 UTC 2020


On Saturday, 28 March 2020 at 18:00:01 UTC, Ernesto Castellotti 
wrote:

>> int -> int32
>> ulong -> uint64
>> float -> float32
>> double -> float64
>> byte -> octet
>>
>> Reason:
>>
>> Most developers no longer remember where these names came from 
>> and why it are so called. In the future this number will close 
>> to 100%. And soon we will have access to all sorts of 
>> non-standard FPGA implemented CPUs with a different byte size, 
>> for example.
>>
>> (It will also break existing code very reliably and it will be 
>> difficult to confuse up code of different Dlang versions.)
>
> Absolutely! But I think it is not necessary to rename.

Then everyone why comes from D2 will use old names and there can 
be confusion.


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